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fri nov 30, 2012

Corporal receives hero’s welcome Province
asked to

Rexdale native
spent nine
months in
Afghanistan

keep lands
for industry

Council wants
to maintain
lakeshore lands
for employment

CYNTHIA REASON
creason@insidetoronto.com
Ask any of the kids at Melody Village
Junior School to describe what Cpl.
Victoria Kovatchev means to them
and they answer simply, in one
word.
“Hero,” Nicholas Blackman and
Alexis Nelles, both 10, said last
Friday morning of Kovatchev, a
Rexdale native who just returned
from her first tour of duty in Kabul,
Afghanistan earlier this month.
Kovatchev was given a hero’s
homecoming celebration – complete
with an honour guard and bag piper,
as well as plenty of flag waving and
song singing – at Melody Village, the
school she went to for daycare and
kindergarten.
As Kovatchev marched into the
school’s gymnasium at the beginning of the school day, all 310
Melody Village students stood at
attention, waving mini flags at her
safe arrival home. And when the kids
sang along to O Canada, Kovatchev
broke down in happy tears through
her salute.
“It’s overwhelming, but in a
good way – in a very good way,”
she said.
For the last nine months while she
served overseas, Melody Village’s
staff, students and surrounding
community have banded together
to send their “hero” 25 care packages
full of letters of thanks, pictures,
goodies and gifts.
Those boxes, Kovatchev said,

DAVID NICKLE
dnickle@insidetoronto.com

Staff photo/IAN KELSO

Melody Village Junior School held a homecoming for Canadian soldier Cpl. Victoria Kovatchev. The soldier,
seen here wiping away tears at the emotional ceremony, attended the school for daycare and kindergarten.

were the highlight of her tour.
“I wanted to tell you guys that
all the letters you wrote me, the
pictures you drew me and the gifts
you sent were the best part of my
tour,” she told the red-and-white
clad, flag-waving students at the
assembly.
“When I was sad, when I was
down, and when things got really,
really hard in Afghanistan, reading
some of the things you guys wrote

and looking at pictures you drew of
me really brightened my day. I put
them all over my room and all over
my workshop, and I wanted you
guys to know how much it meant
to me.”
Last week marked Kovatchev’s
second visit to Melody Village this
year. Her first meeting with the
students was shortly before she
shipped out on Feb. 29, when she
came to visit her nephew – then a

student at the school – and all of
his classmates.
“Two weeks before I deployed, I
came and I went class to class and
met everyone. They sent me away
with a whole bunch of candy and
goodies,” Kovatchev said. “Then,
when I was only (in Afghanistan)
for a month or so, I got my first six
boxes, followed by waves of more
boxes full of goodies and toys.”
>>>students’, page 5

Toronto council has endorsed a
letter from Mayor Rob Ford to the
provincial government, asking that
the lands surrounding the Ontario
Food Terminal and Mr. Christie’s
Bakery be identified as provincially
significant employment lands.
Ford wrote the letter so as to
prevent the owners of the bakery,
Mondelez Canada, from redeveloping the bakery with condominiums. Earlier this fall, Mondelez
announced that it would be laying
off 550 workers there.
Ford’s letter points not to just
those jobs: but the nearby Ontario
Food Terminal in the EtobicokeLakeshore ward.
“The lakeshore site has the potential to employ a lot of people,” said
Ford. “It could be in the hundreds,
could possibly be in the thousands.
Together with the nearby Ontario
Food Terminal, thousands of jobs
are directly affected by the future of
these lands. Tens of thousands of
jobs right across Ontario are indirectly or directly connected to these
lands. Folks – I ask you. We’ve got
to keep these lands for employment
purposes.”
>>>ontario, page 19

OUT OF THE COLD: It was standing room only at Our Lady of Sorrows on Bloor Street West Saturday afternoon as hundreds of people attended
the annual Out of the Cold concert. The choir is made up from members of local church choirs who come together to help raise funds for the Out
of the Cold Program, which provides meals and shelter for the community’s most marginalized members. For more information on how you can
help, contact All Saints Kingsway Anglican Church by email at office@allsaintskingsway.ca or by phone at 416-233-1125.

Clean water headed to Sahel region
TAMARA SHEPHARD
tshephard@insidetoronto.com
Tens of millions of litres of clean
drinking water is on its way from a
Canadian Relief Agency’s Etobicoke
warehouse to the drought and famine-stricken Sahel region in West
Africa.
GlobalMedic’s Rapid Response
Team loaded its shipment of 3.2
million Aquatab water purification
tablets and 330,000 PUR sachets into
cartons and onto trucks Monday
morning to transport by sea con-

tainer to its UNICEF partners on the
ground in Mauritania.
More than 18 million people in
the area stretching from the Atlantic
Ocean to the Red Sea are estimated
to be at risk of food insecurity and
more than one million children
younger than five years old are at
risk of severe acute malnutrition, the
United Nations (UN) reports.
The region including the countries
of Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger
and parts of Sudan, Cameroon and
Nigeria is currently facing a host
of issues, including drought, high

grain prices, environmental degradation and population displacement,
coupled with chronic poverty and
vulnerability, the UN reports.
Normally, GlobalMedic teams
set up hospitals and water purification units at ground zero in disaster
zones. In Mauritania, UNICEF’s
Mauritania country office will distribute the water purification items
through NGOs (Non-Governmental
Organizations) on the ground.
Clean drinking water is critical to
protect people from water-borne
diseases.

“There’s famine, a food crisis
and drought,” Matt Capobianco,
GlobalMedic’s manager of emergency
programs said in an interview. “Any
type of situation where resources
are stretched, there is always a lack
of clean drinking water.”
In October, United Nations’
secretary general Ban Ki-moon
appointed former Italian Prime
Minister Romano Prodi as his new
special envoy for the Sahel region
in West Africa.
Visit www.globalmedic.ca to make
a donation.

See the Dickens’ classic A Christmas
Carol like you’ve never seen it
before.
Humber River Shakespeare
Company’s annual touring production returns for a fifth season this
December to its original, sold-out
Victorian venue Montgomery’s Inn.
This year’s expanded tour of southern Ontario includes stops at 11
historic buildings and old churches,
including the McMichael Canadian
Art Collection and Casa Loma.
What began as a staged reading
has evolved into a full-scale, hourlong production of the poignant tale
of greed, ghosts and salvation told
by five actors playing 23 characters
in Victorian costumes designed by
Dora Award-winning Nina Okens.
“Performing ‘A Christmas Carol’
is our way of giving back and sharing a universal message of hope
and charity and kindness,” Humber
River Shakespeare artistic director
Kevin Hammond said in a statement. “It is a treat and an honour
to perform the show each year and
I am always amazed at how moved
the audiences are.”
The popular production sells out
every year.
A Christmas Carol comes to
Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas
St. W. at Islington Avenue at 7 p.m.
on Thursday, Dec. 6., Thursday,
Dec. 13 and Friday, Dec. 14 at 7 p.m.
There is also a 2 p.m. showing on
Saturday, Dec. 8 and on Saturday,
Dec. 22. The cast takes to St. Paul’s
Anglican Church (Runnymede) on
Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
A Christmas Carol travels to the
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
in Kleinberg on Sunday, Dec. 9 at
1:30 p.m. Performance includes
gallery admission. It plays at Casa
Loma on Wednesday, Dec. 19 at
7 p.m.
Seating is limited. Guaranteed
tickets are available online at
www.humberrivershakespeare.ca.
Tickets are $15 (adults) and $10
(children).

The Etobicoke Guardian is published every Thursday and Friday at 175 Gordon Baker Rd., Toronto, ON M2H 0A2, by Toronto Community News, a Division of Metroland Media Group Ltd.

Lessons learned
from making
snap decisions

To the editor:
Re: ‘Make infrastructure
funding a priority,’ Editorial,
Nov. 15
Canada’s mounting infrastructure crisis of crumbling
bridges, potholes and traffic
gridlock is costing more
than $10 billion in lost productivity every year.
For me and my New
Democrat colleagues this
is an issue that we, along
with municipalities across
Canada, have been pressing
ever since the recent Canada
Infrastructure Program
came to an end.
For us there is no doubt
whatsoever that this should
be a priority for the federal
government.

A

fter contentious debate, Toronto Council has
reversed the decision to ban plastic bags.
The overwhelming vote to do so was brought
upon due to the threat of legal challenges by retailers
and the plastics industry that voiced their displeasure at the lack of public consultation.
Rather than making a snap decision on such a
major issue, council time could have been better
spent if there was some consultation process to begin with.
our view
Let this be a lesson learned.
Not all issues warrant a refPlastic bag
erendum as we’ve elected our
ban: listen to
councillors to govern and represent the best interest of our
the people
respective wards.
But there are some issues that
have greater implications and interest within the
community where they have to get it right. Industry,
retail and a keenly interested public all need the
opportunity to help direct the consideration of the
ban – through public consultation.
And there’s no shortage of major issues across the
city that demand more input from the community.
For example, ongoing discussion about a Torontobased casino should remain a priority with far reaching implications to the city from economic benefits
to the social and health costs of gambling addictions.
Any consultation process itself should also be
opened to engage as many people as possible and
not dominated by special interest groups or more
vocal residents as it can be in town hall meetings.
It’s easier said than done, of course. How many
meetings are called where true public members
attend? And when they do, what percentage of the
population are actually represented? Never enough
for any to claim to speak for any kind of majority of
city residents.
The hardest part of a politician’s job is to truly
understand the desires and priorities of the people
they serve.
It’s subduing the lobby. It’s denying political pressure from compatriots. It’s pursuit of that feeling of
knowing you know what the people want – and not
what you simply think is good for them.
Conversely, community engagement goes two
ways. Residents need to accept responsibility for the
actions taken by the politicians they put into office in
a democratic fashion.
In the end, the priority lies with the elected official
to understand the person he or she is grateful and
honoured to represent.
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Mike Sullivan, MP,
York South-Weston

Ford court case offers opportunities to grow

P

erhaps one of the
reasons that Mayor
Rob Ford’s trouble
has so captured the public’s attention is due to the
number of lessons that it
offers. Those looking for
an example of what can
happen to the headstrong
and stubborn can give
thought to the consequences of not seeking
advice and ignoring warnings.
Those who look at the
practical side of matters
can take away how unnecessary was this fall from
grace, since council was
about to rescind the integrity commissioner’s report
by a large margin.
Yet people are still grappling what to make of a
law so imperfect that the
presiding judge called it a
“blunt instrument,” one
that is exacting a tremendous penalty for “a modest
amount of money which
(Mayor Ford) endeavoured
to raise for a legitimate
charity.”
Much of Justice
Hackland’s judgment is
critical of the Municipal
Conflict of Interest Act.
But under that act, none
of these considerations
matter. If a member of
council does not comply,

Beyond the headlines

david soknacki

removal from office is
mandatory.
To see if Mayor Ford can
remain in office, Justice
Hackland spent much of
his judgment examining
the act’s narrow exemptions point-by-point.
He rejects inadvertence,
since Mayor Ford’s speech
and voting were deliberate. He cannot find the
Mayor’s behaviour an
“error in judgment” within
the meaning of the law.
Since the mayor balked
at repayment the judge
ruled that the amount was
significant to the mayor, so
the exemption of insignificance does not apply.
By the end of the judgment, we are left with the
stark conclusion that,
under the Municipal
Conflict of Interest Act,
Ford was in breach and
that removal from office is
required. Even with what
Justice Hackland calls
“significant mitigating circumstances’” he is able to

do little other than to allow
Ford to seek election next
term.
Assuming the courts
agree to allow Ford to
remain in office during his
appeal, the mayor’s political future will soon rest
in the hands of Divisional
Court.
There he will face great
challenges. New evidence
cannot be introduced. He
must not only overcome
arguments from the original complaint, but also
must convince Divisional
Court that the closely reasoned decision of Justice
Hackland was flawed.
Given the facts, and the
obvious intent of the act, a
successful appeal will be a
tough sell.
At the same time,
Divisional Court will be
aware of the act’s flaws that
Justice Hackland pointed
out, including his opinion
that Mayor Ford’s ill-fated
speech at council was “an
unfortunate but technical
breach.” They will be aware
that it is Mayor Ford’s first
offence under the act, that
all Torontonians will bear
a significant expense to
address a $3,000 problem,
and that the court would
be overturning an election.
The indisputable facts,

the wording of the legislation, and the problem of a
disproportionate mandatory sentence provision
put Divisional Court in an
interesting place. Should
the court wish to soften
the rigour of the law, it will
have little choice but to
push its influence beyond
the act.
Mitigating Mayor Ford’s
penalty will probably
require a form of judicial
activism or discretion that
runs completely counter
to mandatory sentencing
philosophy.
And perhaps here we
come to another lesson.
The politics of the
mayor and his closest
allies have been founded
on principles that include
tightening laws and mandatory sentencing. Blindly
taking this direction will
surely cause the mayor to
be removed from office.
Only by relying on the
court to interpret the legislation broadly and to allow
itself discretion does the
mayor have any chance of
remaining.
n
David Soknacki is a former
City of Toronto councillor
and budget chief. He can be
reached at www.soknacki.
com

Students’ care packages were
soldier’s ‘highlight’ of tour
>>>from page 1
The Melody Village Care
packages not only brightened
Kovatchev’s day, but also those
of the other soldiers who she
worked alongside with as a
mechanic in Kabul.

highlight of tour
“It was the biggest highlight of our morale...everyone
was excited when I got mail
because it was for everyone.
I would open up the boxes,
and I would make the boys
open up the boxes with me,”
the Richview Collegiate grad
recalled with a smile on her
face.
“Cookies and candies and
cakes – you couldn’t get that
kind of stuff over there, so
it was definitely the highlight.”
Kovatchev said the toys
the students sent along in
the care packages were also
much appreciated by the
Afghan children and the
local orphanage she donated

them to.
Melody Village teacher
Louise Foster-Martin –
known affectionately to
the kids as Mrs. FM – said
“Corporal Victoria” is the
third such soldier the school
has ‘adopted’ as their own.
The first was “Capt. Canada,”
a solider from Quebec, and
the second was “Major
Jim.”
Her students, FosterMartin said, have taken a
keen interest in their soldiers
and were overjoyed when
they heard that Kovatchev
had returned home safely.
soldier honoured
“Today we have come
together with our ribbons,
our Canadian flags and our
Canadian spirit to celebrate
the homecoming of Cpl.
Victoria,” she said during
Friday’s homecoming. “Your
bravery on behalf of Canada
cannot be measured by
words. We are very proud

of you and we pay tribute to
you today with this homecoming celebration. You are
a Canadian hero and we welcome you home.”
In addition to being
serenaded with Mariah
Carey’s Hero, waving along
to K’naan’s Wavin’ Flag and
dancing with the kids to Kool
and the Gang’s Celebration,
Kovatchev was also presented
with a veritable treasure trove
of gifts: Olympic memorabilia, Canadian flag luggage,
movie vouchers, restaurant
gift certificates, and – the
highlight – a pair of tickets
to attend the ballet of her
choice at the National Arts
Centre in Ottawa, where she
now lives.
But for Kovatchev, the biggest gift is simply being back
in Canada, surrounded by
loved ones.
“It was different over
there – difficult. But I’m
home now,” she said, smiling through tears.

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Newediuk Funeral Home’s
15th Annual Celebration of Life
This is an uplifting service for anyone who has
been touched by death. You will have an
opportunity to light a candle in memory
of your loved one.

Speed skaters hit the ice
in Etobicoke to compete
Some of the best junior skaters in Canada will compete
in Etobicoke for the chance
to join Team Canada next
month.
T h e To r o n t o S p e e d
Skating Club is set to host the
Canadian Junior Short Track
Championships, Dec. 8 and 9
at the MasterCard Centre for
Hockey Excellence, 400 Kipling

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Ave. During the two-day event,
Canada’s top 32 junior women
and top 32 junior men – including Toronto’s own William
Preudhomme and Stephanie
Bowskill – will compete for
places on the Canadian team
at the World Junior Short Track
Championships in Warsaw,
Poland in February 2013.
These athletes, aged 15 to

19, represent Canada’s Olympic
future in speed skating, a sport
that accounts for 23 per cent
of Canada’s Olympic medals
since 1924.
The competition runs from
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Dec. 8 and 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
on Sunday, Dec. 9.
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Plastic bag ban nixed City snow crews not
City staff to study other ways to curb use of bags
betting on mild winter
DAVID NICKLE
dnickle@insidetoronto.com

The bag ban is off — at least
for now.
Toronto council voted overwhelmingly to put the brakes
on a new bylaw that was to
have banned reusable plastic
bags in Toronto retailers as of
Jan. 1 next year.
The bylaw had been
approved back in the summer,
when Willowdale Councillor
David Shiner moved an
amendment to a motion by
Mayor Rob Ford to end the
mandatory plastic bag fee
imposed by the previous
administration.
Both the old fee, and
Shiner’s amendment, were
intended to curb the use of
plastic bags and keep them
out of both landfills and the
environment.
Since then, the snap decision had retailers and the plastics industry up in arms, and
the city was facing two lawsuits

over the bylaw, which had no
public consultation.
On Wednesday, council
had before it the final draft of
the bylaw — which ordinarily
would be a routine matter.
But in light of the legal
challenges, council voted on
a confidential set of recommendations which amount
to the cancellation of the bag
fee.
“I think the public will be
very pleased with this,” said
public works and infrastructure committee chair Denzil
Minnan-Wong.
“I believe we made a significant mistake in the way this
was adopted and I’m hopeful
that council will learn from
that.”
After the vote, MinnanWong said the city had given
instructions to staff to go
to industry groups with an
offer.
“My suspicion is that they
will be quite satisfied with the
decision that council has made

and the instruction we’ve given
to our lawyers,” he said.
Industry representatives at
the meeting were pleased.
“We’re very happy council
made the right decision today
on behalf of all Torontonians,”
said Joe Hruska of the Canadian
Plastic Bag Association.
“It will save thousands of
jobs. It’s a confidential report
so we don’t know what’s in
there. But the best we can tell
right now is the bag ban is not
enacted.”
But the same couldn’t be
said for environmentalists.
“This is a bad decision for
the environment; this is a bad
decision for Torontonians,”
said Emily Alfred with the
Toronto Environmental
Alliance.
Council also approved a
motion to study other ways
to curb the use of plastic bags.
That report will come forward
to the public works and infrastructure committee in June
of 2013.

DAVID NICKLE
dnickle@insidetoronto.com

Toronto got off easy last winter,
with mild temperatures and
very little snowfall.
And while Toronto’s works
department is hoping for more
of the same this winter, they’re
not betting on it.
“We’re hoping for another
mild winter but we’re ready
if we have a heavy snowfall,” said public works and
infrastructure committee
chair Denzil Minnan-Wong
Tuesday, Nov. 20, as the city
unveiled its 2012-2013 winter
snow clearing plan.
The mild winter past has
left the city with a $20 million
surplus on top of its annual
$86 million snow clearing
budget — but that surplus
could evaporate if the rest of
November and December
prove more blustery.
To that end, the city has
readied its fleet of 1,100 snow

clearing vehicles to keep the
keep the roads and sidewalks
clear: 600 snow plows, 300
sidewalk plows and 200 salt
trucks.
They’ll be deployed to
various types of roadways
depending on the severity of
the storm. Once snow begins,
the city sends out salt trucks to
main roads and expressways.
When the snow reaches 2.5
centimetres, snow clearing
starts on expressways; at five
centimetres, arterial roads will
be cleared. When it hits eight
centimetres, local roads will
get ploughed.
“Some people think that
once a few centimetres fall on
the ground you should be on
my street. Well, that’s the standard,” Minnan-Wong said.
He said the city is ready to
deal with most snowfalls, but
admitted that if the city gets
hit with an unusually large
snowfall — such as the one in
1999 that caused then-Mayor

Mel Lastman to call in the
army to clear snow and make
the city the butt of jokes — it
would be a challenge.
“We’re ready for winter,”
he said. “I don’t think anyone
was ready for 1999. We’ve got
enough resources but in the
case of a 1999 storm, if that
were to happen all over again
everybody would be challenged to deal with it.”
As always, the city is asking
residents in downtown neighbourhoods to clear the snow
on sidewalks in front of their
houses, but elsewhere the
city will endeavour to clear
sidewalk snow itself.
The city is also getting ready
to deal with another bane of
winter: frozen watermains.
The city is continuing to
replace aging watermains, but
crews are on call 24/7 to repair
any that break.
Anyone seeing broken
water mains is advised to call
311 to report it.

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>>>from page 1
In a letter, Ontario Food
Terminal Board Chair James
Reaume made it clear that the
food terminal – the largest of
its kind in the country – is a key
piece of infrastructure for the
$39-billion farming and food
sector in the province.
“The conversion of these
two proposed employment
lands to sensitive residential uses in and around the

Ontario Food Terminal will
greatly diminish its role within
the city and the province,” he
wrote. “It will reduce employment opportunities; and it will
reduce the economic value
inherent within this facility.”
Etobioke-Lakeshore
Councillor Peter Milczyn said
that mixing in residential with
the busy food terminal would
be a recipe for disaster.
“There is no more impor-

tant point of entry for good
food access in the city than
the Ontario Food Terminal,”
he said. “Just as Christies, or
Kraft, or Mondelez warned
us for years do not place too
much intensification around
us because it will push us out
– well that day has come. Now
you have the food terminal
saying the same things: do
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will impede the flow of traf-

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fic into our site, do not create
a situation where there will
be complaints about truck
traffic through the night, or
a person who doesn’t like the
look of cabbages or salads

out their window. We have
to take a strong position on
employment lands: we’re not
going to support this kind of
application.”
If the province designates

the lands a provincially significant employment area, it
would prevent the rezoning of
any of the land at 2150 Lake
Shore Blvd. W. to residential.

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COMMERCIAL ACCOUNT SALES, DESIGN
AND CONTRACTS MANAGER
A leading Canadian food service equipment company is seeking a
Commercial Account Sales, Design and Contracts
Manager for its Toronto Branch.
Duties and Responsibilities:
“ Work with clients and internal team to design and plan commercial kitchen, bar facilities for the
hospitality and food service industry sectors.
“ Utilize project management tools to eﬃciently manage projects and contracts from conception, contract
negotiation, execution, and installation that include conducting of job site visits throughout the project to
ensure adherence to design specification and quality, schedule, budget, and safety regulations.
“ Create, evaluate and monitor project budgets and ensure timely account payment collections.
“ Existing account management and new business development, including preparation of sales proposals
and presentations in various media.
“ Oversee, direct and monitor the Contact Sales Department; including managing departmental staﬀ,
preparation of departmental reports and responding to client issues.
Qualifications and Experience:
“ Completion of secondary education.
“ Minimum 5 years experience in design, sales and installation management of commercial kitchen, bar
and food service facilities.
“ Ability to read and interpret detailed construction drawings; and create conceptual freehand design
sketches is essential.
“ Demonstrable experience of managing multiple contracts including: establishment of project goals,
planning of work schedules, leadership of project teams, and control of budgets and expenditure.
“ Excellent leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, including experience of recruitment,
management and training of a department of 3 or more employees.
“ Must be capable of operating in a fast-paced professional environment, meeting tight deadlines and
exceptional attention to detail.
“ Ability to use Computer Assisted Design software is desirable, however candidates must be willing to
study this skill as part of continuing education.
“ Use of a reliable vehicle is essential as the position requires regular local and occasional regional travel
to client’s locations and project work sites.
“ Candidates selected for further screening or interview will be requested to provide examples of their
completed work and work samples.
Remuneration:
“ A guarantee of $60k/annum in the form of salary and bonus.
“ Bonus is based on sales performance, plus benefits e.g. HSA.
Please e-mail your resume to Patrick Yarush, General Manager at toronto@russellfood.ca

Reporting to the VP of Business Development, this role includes
responsibility for strategic planning, new product development,
innovation and corporate expansion, including M&A and strategic
partnership advances. You’ll work collaboratively with the Corporate
Development team and various business units to research and
analyze new markets, business models and partnerships. You will
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analytical and independent strategic thinker. Access to opportunities
at this level of strategic exposure to leading online businesses and
personal development are extremely rare. There are many possible
paths for the successful applicant.

Specifically, your responsibilities will include:
• Assessing new business opportunities and developing strong
business plans to support new business / product launches
• Assisting in defining, developing and communicating Metroland’s
corporate strategy to management and key stakeholders
• Researching and identifying new business opportunities/threats
by developing insight about the macro-environment (market
segments, competition, business models, trends, etc.)
• Participating in the assessment and due diligence process for
strategic acquisitions and/or partnerships
• Assisting in the launch/build of organic businesses and the
integration and analysis (pre and post) of acquired initiatives
• Assisting in development of term sheets, contracts and transition
plans
• Assist in growing Metroland’s distribution channels and
facilitating core expansion efforts through researching,
relationship building and analysis
• Assisting the senior executive team in strategic planning,
developing Board materials and providing other analytical
support, as required
ABOUT YOU
• Undergraduate business degree or higher (e.g., BComm, HBA,
MBA)
• Minimum 2 years experience in strategy consulting / corporate
development / data analytics or similar environment
• Advanced understanding of MS-Excel (i.e. financial modeling,
etc.) and experience in developing clear and compelling MSPowerPoint presentations
• Experienced in gaining and communicating insight from
qualitative and quantitative research sources (including sound
primary and secondary research skills)
• Demonstrated ability to manage several projects (i.e. ability to
define the issue, manage projects against tight timelines and
work well in teams)
• Experience in digital media/online advertising an asset
• Mobile and able to travel throughout the GTA as required
If you are an individual that consistently exceeds expectations and
this position sounds like the opportunity you’ve been searching for,
please forward your resume, cover letter and salary expectations to
tkukle@metroland.com on or prior to December 05, 2012,
referencing “CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT ANALYST” in the
Subject line.
Metroland is an equal opportunity employer.
Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls
agencies please.

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RICCARDO ERNESTO PAPA), late of
the City of Toronto, in the Province of
Ontario, who died on or about the 20th
day of July, 2004, must be ﬁled with the
undersigned Estate Trustee on or before
December 24, 2012, thereafter, the
undersigned will distribute the assets of
the said estate having regard only to the
claims then ﬁled.
DATED at Toronto November 15, 2012
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